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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"cultural perceptions"”.
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Information in nineteenth century England : exploring contemporary socio-cultural perceptions and understandings
… understandings of information from a social and cultural perspective and offers new insights into the chronology of `modern' information. The focus is on nineteenth century England and how contemporary society thought of and understood information. As a consequence of this, this work also …
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Cultural perceptions related to the health and body size of Antiguan women
… barrier solutions, and body size preferences and perceptions. Participants were 21-70 years old, and were divided into three age groups. Although 70% of the sample were either overweight or obese, weight issues received little priority as a health related factor. Instead, women under 30 defined …
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Criminal Law and the Collective Conscience: Multidimensional Scaling of Collective Cultural Perceptions of Crime
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Understanding cultural perceptions of nature and related constraints to hunting participation among African American male hunters
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Describing the Cultural Perceptions of Weight and Perceived Body Size with Obese African American Women: A Descriptive Focused Ethnography
… incidence and prevalence of obesity among all cultural groups in the United States. Understanding cultural factors which influence perception of body size and ultimately impact decisions by obese AAW to lose or manage their weight is essential in ultimately designing culturally appropriate …
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Do modern video games impact the cultural perceptions and acceptance of racial stereotypes? : a qualitative assessment of video game usage.
… portrayed in video games. In order to evaluate perceptions, a theoretical framework based on Social Learning Theory was used to conduct a qualitative assessment to determine how a person's level of video game usage, stereotype awareness, stereotype perception and impact, and personal experiences …
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Disaster, Technology, and the Military: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Impact of the Environment on Cultural Perceptions of the Military
… Kanto Earthquake and the impact of disaster on cultural perceptions of the military as well as the synergistic relationship between disaster, technology, and the military had a profound bearing on ensuing developments in Japan and have subsequently been overlooked and underestimated in modern …
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Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art
… divergent interpretations are reconciled by the cultural perceptions of the medium employed-the immovable rock cliff. Crow interpretations of rock art, therefore, rest as much on the rock face and its place in the landscape as on the comprehension of culturally defined symbols.
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"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
… and negative forms of stigmatization exist cross-culturally, and are examined in a world-survey format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to disability are cultural specific, and that these individualized responses are filtered …
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Linking Disability and Intercultural Studies: the adaptation journey of the visually impaired migrant in Ireland
… adapting to their disability and a new cultural environment while living in Ireland. In so doing this study aims to link the two academic fields of Intercultural Studies and Disability Studies and theoretical underpinnings for this study are drawn and woven together from both fields. As …
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Cultural Landscapes in Conflict: Addressing the Interests and Landscape Perceptions of Native Americans, the National Park Service, and the American Public in National Parks
… results indicating that many areas which have cultural significance to Native American peoples have been adversely impacted by national park recreationalists. This thesis addresses the significance of these impacts along with other management issues associated with conflicting landscape …
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Cultural Landscapes in Conflict: Addressing the Interests and Landscape Perceptions of Native Americans, the National Park Service, and the American Public in National Parks
… results indicating that many areas which have cultural significance to Native American peoples have been adversely impacted by national park recreationalists. This thesis addresses the significance of these impacts along with other management issues associated with conflicting landscape …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
<p>Cultural perceptions guided the American use of submarines during the twentieth century. Feared as an evil weapon during the First World War, guarded as a dirty secret during the Second World War, and heralded as the weapon of democracy during the Cold War, the American submarine story reveals …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
<p>Cultural perceptions guided the American use of submarines during the twentieth century. Feared as an evil weapon during the First World War, guarded as a dirty secret during the Second World War, and heralded as the weapon of democracy during the Cold War, the American submarine story reveals …
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Muslim Perceptions of Human Rights in the Light of Culture, and the Need for Human Rights Education
… more attention may be given to the ways cultural perceptions can create barriers to human rights. This set of mixed methods studies gives greater attention to the culture that the successful application of human rights education requires greater attention to culture than what is generally …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
… examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. The central argument …
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Goede Nacht: Images of the Night in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture
… historical, religious, socio-economic and cultural associations and circumstances. The wide range of depicted subjects demonstrates the richness of such imagery and engages the sometimes conflicting cultural perceptions of the night among the Dutch at this time. Artists in various Dutch …
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Educating a Diverse Student Population: A Principal in a Small Urban Setting
… in learning, more attention should be given to cultural perceptions, and the content and style of instruction. The academic success of each student hinges on an educational approach oriented to attainment for all. Such an approach should be based on a view of schools as inclusive learning …
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Cheerleaders, jocks, nerds and "the man": popular representations of schooling in modern television
… that current television programs reflect broad cultural views about education and include fears about bullying and school shootings, as well as assumptions that secondary schools do not meet the needs of all of their students. The study also revealed cultural perceptions on school staff as …
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Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
… represented in Italian modernist artistic and cultural debates between 1880 and 1945. I study how artists and critics such as Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio De Chirico, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, and Roberto Longhi championed or disparaged the Baroque in the context of heated debates over the …
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